For better or worse, the development plans were perceived as a threat to this spirit.
The two women — in their twenties, with no experience in business — were perceived as a novelty.
Or because they were perceived as a couple who might eventually have children, bringing disruption to the building?
Hearing aids were perceived as "a neon sign on your forehead saying, 'I'm flawed, I'm old,' " he said.
When Rice joined the Knicks last September, high scoring and smooth jumpers were perceived as a given, as were all of the questions surrounded his defense.
DETROIT — It wasn't long ago that car-sharing services like Zipcar were perceived as a threat to the sales volumes of traditional automakers.
Erdoğan's demands that his foe, Fethullah Gülen, in self-imposed exile in the US, be extradited over claims that he drove the plot, were perceived as a slight in Washington.
The walls of the caves were perceived as a kind of membrane between that world and their own, and the cave paintings were a means of 'fixing' images of the spirits.
And Karl Rove, whose appearance in this book is evidence that an interview request from Mr. Brokaw was an offer that couldn't be refused, has the strategic insight that while the '60s were perceived as a heyday for antiwar sentiment, nearly 60percentt of the vote in 1968 went to Richard Nixon and George Wallace.
It's also from the sense that, ever since the Busby Babes and the Munich air disaster in 1958, United had been regarded as the "big", or at least most romantic club in the city, and even the country; that they were perceived as a great institution while City were merely a football club.
Today people blame the omnipotence of the bottom line, but once it was writers themselves who were perceived as a threat to the business — rebellious writers such as the salacious Henry Miller and the contentious William S. Burroughs, whose work was rejected and censored lest it sully the shining catalogue of the mainstream.
